egypt for more protests from the opposition who threatened to storm the presidential palace for a show of anger against the country's leader mohamed morsi. and earlier in the week similar scenes of chaos and violence on the streets of tunisia where the assassination of a prominent opposition figure ignited outbursts of on the rest of the people blaming the islamist government for betraying the arab spring. protests and catcalls come and see a hopeful john brennan at a confirmation hearing fears of where the architect of the targeted assassination program could take america's spy bureau. in russia countdown to the twenty fourteen winter olympics the games promised to be unique but also the most expensive in history with a huge overspend already costing a key organizer his job.

good evening i'm watching the weekly right here on r.t.e. . egypt's opposition groups are gearing up for a more mass rally is against president morsi was some threatening to storm the presidential palace the protesters are demanding that morsi uphold the goals of the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak two years ago and was increasingly becoming a similar scenario meanwhile an egyptian court has ordered the government to block the video sharing web site you tube for a month citing anti islam content and true reports decision is only likely to inflame tensions. there's been a lot of condemnation of the by protest movements who see you tube as a vital resource for disseminating information about human rights abuses by the

security forces it's also an indication of an islam is ation all of egypt has been a number of quite controversial statements made by these hardline muslim clerics in the last few weeks including a religious edict calling opposition forces to be killed and a muslim cleric speaking to. justifying that sex mob attacks on egyptian protesters in tahrir square you have a very restive country here in egypt in the last few weeks especially since the second anniversary of the journey one hundred five when thousands gathered in the streets of egypt complaining that their president ahmed morsi had not made key changes in demands of the revolution friday we saw more protests part of friday's day of dignity thousands of protesters gathered across the main rallying points in this in the country which devolved into clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in the capital here by the presidential palace. the building with molotov they were pushed by take us and water cannons and so bloody of violence in the in the governor with unconfirmed deaths in couple shake as well as

violent clashes and. we have more protests on the horizon with further expected violence we don't see this finishing anytime soon. if you can journalist and blogger. says that many people in the country feel their freedoms are being cut back by president morsi and his allies. what the muslim brotherhood right now is trying to do is restore autocratic rule and much like the mubarak method of governing and i think the way the political actors see it is that mubarak was not ruthless enough and did not clamp down on freedoms enough to sustain his rule and this is what they're trying to remedy the you tube verdict comes in light of. you know many other decisions that clamp down on freedoms and it's no surprise that they will try to install the infrastructure necessary to clamp down on. various websites that they see as a threat to their rule where we're going to see more waves of protests and we're

going to see more violence because if you look at the situation in egypt the regime did not die the symbols just changed we just have new people following the same rules. egypt wasn't the only arab spring country plunged into turmoil this week a wave of violent protesters swept through tunisia this following the assassination of a secular opposition leader there are dozens were injured more than three hundred people detained during the rallies which ended with anti-government demonstrators clashing with the police are days away open ocean has been following the dramatic developments in the tourney and capitol forty eight year old lawyer shockley ability to criticize the islam is to government for creating and really just state in tunisia and burying democracy now belied is dead but his ideas are not. the country's been in crisis economic political and social the ruling troika how to chone says it's been a year and

a half but we didn't see any progress the death of all come right becomes the last straw. anger moved to the streets with protesters demanding the authorities and mabel to protect its citizens to leave the. city with. some crime because billowy was a symbol of dignity and a symbol of the defense of the country this is a political assassination and that means the violence is not over. yet the interior ministry said that one million in the have joined the ceremony that turned into a political manifestation people said that if the crowd reached the city center it would have been the last day of the government. as your attend the funeral of shockey belayed on friday after the seventy try to make their way to visit is made of and yet to continue and sick i didn't protest if they were not allowed to do that police used tear gas immediately was such a central city is packed with people but slogans we're hearing are completely

different. carrion islamist flags people masterly in support of the ruling and not a party the local branch of the muslim brotherhood police were at the scene to protest and demonstrators this time this reverse gathering didn't pull more than five thousand participants but the government used this to illustrate that their position was still strong looking at the big men didn't prove that people support and believe our party. over but. they try to say face but don't have the choice they lost credibility and have no choice but to dissolve the government which is by de facto dissolved already. standing on the brink of a political crisis prime minister proposed to form a new cabinet consisting of neutral politicians his own party rejected the plan and christenings idea of a possible further split and fears are growing that the political divisions may

lead to even more victims always threaten to another guy from the opposition was attacked at the funerals i don't want to panic and exploit that person but there is a list of people those who fought for the revolutions principles liberty democracy dignity we're all in danger to use a go tunisia became the first nation to have an arab spring revolution that has been hailed as a success story praised for the minimal violence and turmoil but as we watched the country face a political implosion it may be only now that this what has been wound up tightly it's been sprung for three days clashes between police and protesters shook the country leaving many injured and cars burnt out across the city but it all finished as quickly as it started just hours later the capital looks empty and come and the loudest noise here at the moment is sound of birds twittering.

t. . floria for sure still in tunisia keeping us up to date with the latest from from there appear her twitter feed and her most recent post reporting the political crisis in the country is saying the prime minister is still aiming to reshuffle the government just bite defiance from is own party he's even promising to resign of the cabinet isn't approved. obama's nominee to head the cia the architect of the drone assassination program has faced a senate confirmation hearing this week critics accuse lawmakers of giving john brennan an easy ride although some members of the public did not and an assertion was trapped at several times by protesters against brennan as the driving. force behind the so-called targeted killings operations human rights activists claim the use of drones against a suspected terrorist is unlawful and leads to a high number of civilian casualties after the chairman ordered the protesters to

be removed the lawmakers questioned brennan on torture and cia shortcomings although they seemed reluctant to challenge him on his answers scholar and author colonic have well says that given brennan's of use his confirmation it could set a troubling precedent this was a complete with our constitutional rights under the fourteenth amendment. and equal rejection of the law and you know with the administration is doing here is they're usurping the. united to the american citizens and saying that we can be judge jury and executioner we can do you know american citizens abroad without them having the. court we can say they are jurors and we can go in this dangerous and this is what didn't look like ministrations says we can determine who are the jurors then that means you know if you were any american. without

any draft without any problems and that is a very dangerous precedent. john brennan is now up for a closed door hearing to iron out sensitive technicalities but the debate is already brewing about what direction he can take the cia in r.t.f. get it if you can explain. in the shadows no more drones are moving into the mainstream was drone makers in the u.s. military pushing to defend the killing machine drones are more properly titled remotely piloted vehicles allow us to do is to project capability without projecting vulnerability and their revolutionizing warfare by allowing us to see and kill from half a world away a major drone manufacturer lockheed martin has financed an hour long documentary on drones aired recently on u.s. public television touting the technological capabilities of the killing machine

from trailers like this pilots of the predator and its larger cousin the reaper have killed thousands of individual since two thousand and one using remotely piloted aircraft contrary to popular belief actually provides the greatest degree of ethical oversight for their use of this young man in pakistan he would probably disagree several of his family members died at the remote hands of a drone more than a thousand other civilians were reportedly killed by u.s. drone strikes in pakistan and yemen we find ourselves murdering people in many cases children with no evidence whatsoever that they're involved in any criminal or terrorist activity the numbers should not come as a surprise considering the broad definition the obama administration gives as to who should be on their kill list the leaked memo uncredited assassinations on the us justice department suggests the us government can kill people even without evidence that they are actively plotting against america somebody

a us citizen or otherwise is believed to be thinking something that could lead to actions against the united states then this illogical logic would present the idea that it would be ok for the president to order that that person be killed the spite the u.n. raising concerns about the legality of the use of drones the u.s. has said to expand its remote. the warfare setting up new drone bases across the world has redefined war during the intervention in libya he made the case that the war powers act in the quiet because there was no risk to american soldiers and so under that rationale he can expand the global war while in his state of the union address queening that we don't need perpetual war for peace but it is perpetual war when you can drop bombs on any country and then claim that it's not working john brennan often referred to as the architect of the administration's drone war how it's the new opportunities for the us to wage wars without risking american lives

there is another reason the targeted strikes can be a wise choice to strategic consequences that inevitably come with the use of force . as we have seen deploying large armies abroad won't always be our best offense all in all the u.s. now has around ten thousand drones in its fleet not all of them carry weapons of course a lot of them are for surveillance both domestic and international there's a great push both from the administration and the drone makers to present them as america's next best thing john brennan if confirmed will soon be at the helm of the cia and no one doubts that under him the program will expand even further in washington i'm going to stay down. stay with us a short break coming up. thank

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video for your media project revealed down to our t.v. dot com. thanks welcome back i'm lucy catherine of well this week saw days of strikes in spain as tens of thousands of teachers and students voice their anger over education cuts but the government seems unmoved by the crowds and says it is committed to belt tightening measures as it struggles to dig the country out of its debt hole now the message from the people of spain was echoed on the streets of ireland where thousands united in a massive show of anger against severe austerity measures tough cuts were implemented to please ireland's creditors it's been relying on a joint international monetary fund loan since two thousand and ten. now an angry crowds have been spoiling the mood of e.u. leaders that they celebrate a historic budget deal in the block spending for the first time ever it was sealed

after hours of debate and bickering over the deal left the european parliament unimpressed with the tempi is now planning to block it in a private vote economist james matter way weighs in constitutionally the well within their rights to reject the thing and send it back and have another go at writing this know whether they actually do that will probably depend on the fine print of the budget or already. politics to said he would be able to support the steel and the heads of one of the major groups in the parliament socially screwed there are likely to be supported so it's going to be a rocky ride i think this budget over the next few months cameron's right talk about this being like a reduction in a credit card limits and of course you can have your credit card limit reduced and still spend on spending more money no that's almost certainly what's going to happen to britain over the next few years the amounts that britain is expected to pay into the may need for and will increase as a result of increased payments to

a new member countries so he's going to pretend that this will show how britain can still be a force in europe how we can push the rest of europe around discourses over the fact of course that he would have got anywhere in this without the support of the angle of merkel in particular so he can he can try to push that line the you know he knows what he's doing to europe and that we don't need to go so far as to step out of the european union but i wouldn't see the more euro skeptic members of his own party being particularly impressed by any of this and to some other world headlines in brief now. a month or multibillion dollar missile defense shield that the u.s. is deploying in eastern europe may not be able to protect america from possible strikes from iran serious flaws in a system were revealed in a study of the defense department prepared for a briefing. russia has long been critical of the missile shield close to its borders that the u.s. insists it's simply aimed at preventing attacks from iran and north korea.

at least eighteen people have reportedly been killed in a stampede at a railroad station in northern india after overcrowded foot bridge collapsed local media says the death toll could rise the accident occurred as tens of millions gather on the banks of the ganges river for the religious festival. in the u.s. the los angeles police department says it will reopen an investigation into the dismissal of a police officer who is now on the run suspected of murder officials will look at the fugitives allegations of racism and corruption among his ex colleagues christopher dorner was fired in two thousand and nine he's now wanted for allegedly killing three people after posting a manifesto online. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta acknowledged this week for the first time that he backs arming syrian rebels the plan was put forward last summer by a senior u.s. politicians but was reportedly rebuffed by president obama russia's envoy to the

u.n. told r.t. that despite this washington still bears some responsibility for what's going on in syria but only turkey an exclusive interview is coming your way in the next hour but here's a quick preview. but the united states chose to stay clean of the bad guys at some point of the crisis the did realize it seems that things going very wrong you know that various terrorist groups were coming in the radical islamists so we're we're we're active and the original scenario they had in mind that it would take just a couple of months to topple the assad regime and then sort of democracy will throw you off was completely unrealistic but i mean do notice this is an extremely powerful country definitely with a lot of an influence on for example such a country as qatar which is reportedly the main source of weapons and support for for armed opposition so the fact they simply see themselves are not doing that does

not does not really absolve them completely from responsibility of what is happening on the. web privacy in the u.k. could be compromised if the government pushes on with its plans just spy on citizens on live now a document described as a small purse charter would allow authorities to track people's internet activity and mobile phone use the government explained that the bill was crucial for national security but the draft proposal has sparked fears among britons as some believe the monitoring of personal data is simply a step too far to the killer of the open rights group thinks will be no place beyond the reach of the state. the snoopers charters a bill that would allow the government to collect data about everybody online and data mining that data so it's not just about the guilty it is not just about records being kept is not just about serious people serious criminals who need to

be tracked is about the potential of anybody in law enforcement to get hold of any information about anybody just about anything that you do would be detectable through the information trails you leave we leave the home office of publish detailed proposals so that we can see whether there a way workable what the damage would be and have a proper serious debate about voce proposals so our people right to think of these proposed laws as a serious invasion of privacy and go to our website you can have your say on what you think would happen of the governor in managing to push the snoopers charter through. what looked like a distant olympic dream for russians has now become a very close reality the countdown has kicked off across the country marking one year before russia hosts its first ever words our games get celebrations and praise for the unique facilities built from scratch went hand in hand with harsh criticism

for overspending not to mention missed deadlines are due to enter farmer reports from sochi. fireworks lit up the sochi sky this week marking exactly a year to go before the winter games begin since two thousand and seven piece by piece the city has been putting its elim picturing together in the company in charge of construction says russia will be ready and. we plan to introduce all the facilities before the games start training facilities are ready practically all of them of host to test competitions all hotels and limpid villages are in the final phase of construction being referred and furnished to show jewels to open in the autumn we plan to complete construction long before the end of the year said personnel can train a managers can gain experience in providing a good service however such a vast undertaking has not been without its problems presentation was in the region this week to check on progress and was taking no prisoners the ski jumping center

the any venue not yet up and running and it sparked this exchange with russian olympic officials are the costs of this whole facility costing what's the overall. initially we were assessing the amount of. what's a rough estimate. this initial price was one point two billion. one point two billion has turned into a billion yes well done good work let's move on. it resulted in the sacking of a key member of russia's a lunatic committee at fifty billion dollars the sochi games will be the most expensive in italy history they have cost ten times more than the last winter games in vancouver and ten trillion dollars more than the games however the results can already be seen and they are impressive if you do take a quick look around you can see what money can buy at the center of the olympic

park which is six venues all within a stone's throw of each other to host the curling the skating and the ice hockey and this is the job. in the crown the bolshoi i stuck. the bass to reno was she strikes spectacular skating she was part of the countdown celebrations and in a year's time. and in the ice hockey finals in the she said tropical like the slogan for thought she twenty fourteen is hot cool because they don't pick pockets them by their backs in case they're i'm cold because all the alpine events or take place just forty kilometers away. progress is rapid. poor resort has sprung up from nowhere to become the home of alpine skiing biathlon cross-country courses have also been created along with the bob sleigh track and a road and rail leak that i spectators to get from the mountains to the coast in just a few minutes sochi itself has undergone massive upheaval kilometers of road am rail

lines are put in place and new hotels are built but the mayor believes the region will reap the benefits for years to come. our residents are aware of the conditions they have to face during changes especially. we certainly have many inconveniences because there's not a single street in sochi without renovation going on the roads are regularly dug up which causes traffic jams all the time however the residents are aware that it's necessary for their future brilliant future. then has been overhauled in just six years but the transformation complete and the black sea resort believes it can and will deliver the games to remember this time next year andrew farmer. the lympics spirit also reached new york this week where un chief ban ki moon joined the celebrations at the organization's headquarters now for those of you who want to see the sochi games in person take its are already on sale and available

online. all right at south time for our special report gaming for life stay with our team. saudi arabia has ordered its retailers to construct one point six meter tall barriers in the middle of their stores a rather unusual demand is that something related to everyone's favorite buzzword

terrorism no it is to keep male and female coworkers separate saudi arabia is pretty infamous in the west for its laws regarding the sexes and their segregation activists always want to go to other countries to convince them to adopt western attitudes that deep down in their hearts they secretly want but often they miss things like the fact that it was saudi women who ask for the segregation feeling uncomfortable while buying products from men according to a.f.p. you know some people in countries like saudi arabia or north korea might actually like living a radically different lifestyle and even if they don't like living that way well it is their job to fix it not by some sort of western intervention when i want to live in either of those countries not really do i want to live in a country with the saudi arabian concept of gender no not really but part of having freedom of choice means being able to choose things that i may think are backwards or illogical you know let them have the walls in the stores if they want western civilization you know if it's truly the end all of human evolution.